Combined cigarette case and lighter



June.9, 1936. 1 A. DENIT COMBINED CIGARETTE CASE AND LIGHTER Filed March 13, 1934 Patented June 9, 1936y UNITED STATE COLIBINED CIGARETTE CASE AND LIGHTER Led A. Denit, sa1em,va.

Application March 13, 1934, Serial No. 715,342

This invention relates to an improvement in combined cigarette cases and lighters of the character wherein a pyrophorous lighter is applied to a cigarette-case.

'I'he object of the invention is to have a package of cigarettes and a lighter for the cigarettes in one combined casing or structure, convenient for use, and to eliminate the separate carrying of cigarettes and a lighter or matches, which would make it necessary to reach in the pockets first for the cigarettes and thereafter for the lighter or matches. By combining these in one casing, they are conveniently andcompactly carried so as to be accessible together for instant rettes in a relatively tight casing, such as a metal case, they keep fresh longer than otherwise, and,

since the package of cigarettes is usually wrapped in a cellophane" wrapper, it is desirable to inlo sert the complete package in the casing so that the cigarettes will not be disturbed therein.

This invention is shown applied to a case capable of receiving the complete package of cigarettes, and combines therewith in the same structure a lighter for the cigarettes.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the combined cigarette-case and lighter with the top of the cigarette-case removed;

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the casing showing the lighter in position to be inserted therein;

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan View of the complete casing;

Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the complete casing;

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4; and Y Fig. 6 is a plan view of a modied form of lighter. Y

The invention is shown applied to a conventional form of cigarette case, the body portion of which is designated I, and has a telescoping top 2 capable of iitting over a package of cigarettes 454 encased within the body portion I, although the invention may be applied to other forms of cigarette-cases, such, for instance, as having the top hinged or otherwise secured to the body portion. The lighter structure is shown as applied to the 50 bottom of the cigarette-case, although it will be obvious that it may be applied to a side or to the top thereof, but its application to the bottom arranges the lighter in a convenient place for use. -The lighter structure has a casing 3 rigidly 55 fixed to, or integral with, the cigarette-case, such use. It is well-known that by enclosing the ciga-A s claims. (ci. 20s-41.4)

as the body portion I thereof, and preferably is of the same shape and area as the bottom of said case when the lighter is applied to the bottom thereof. The lighter casing 3 has an opening 4 therein, which is open to one end of the casing 3 5 in position to permit a lighter to be inserted into the opening; and, to facilitate the removal of the lighter, one side ofthe casing 3 has a thumb-notch 5 therein, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.,

The lighter preferably is of the pyrophorous 10 type, and to facilitate compactness it is relatively fiat, as shown in Fig. 2, wherein its casing is designated 6, and is shaped to approximately t the opening or chamber 4 in the lighter casing 3. The casing 6 normally is held in the lighter cas- -15 ing 3, by a, slight punch-press 1 in a side thereof in position to enter a corresponding indentation in a side of the lighter casing 3. To permit removal of the lighter from the lighter casing, the lighter has thinnb-grooves 8 in opposite sides 20 thereof at one end to facilitate grasping of the lighter with a finger-nail in the thumb-notch 5 for removing the lighter from the lighter casing.

'Ihe casing 6 of the lighter may be made of transparent material, if desired, iii-order to per- 25 mit inspection of the contents, as, for instance, to see when the lighter iluid has become exhausted, or, instead of making the casing 6 of transparent material, a window 9 may be formed in a side thereof for inspection of the contents.

The casing 6 contains the usual lighter fluid capable of ignition, and to make the uid available for use a wick I0 extends thereinto, and through a sleeve II threaded into an end of the lighter .(as shown in Figs. 2 and 5). A steel pin 35 I2 is inserted into the end of the casing 6 beside the wick III.

When the lighter is in place in the chamber 4, leakage of fluid is prevented by absorbent material, such as cotton I3, which is placed in one end of the chamber 4, against which the end of the wick would press so as to keep any fuel from running out of the chamber 4 and getting onto the clothes of the person carrying thelighter and cigarette-case.

As shown in Fig. 3, a bar I4 of a. suitable sparkgiving alloy, such as cerium iron alloy, is tted and secured in a groove I5 formed in the bottom of the lighter casing 3, so that the lighter may be removed from the casing and the wick ignited by rubbing the steel pin I2 along the surface of bar I4, which creates a spark suilicient to ignite the fuel-saturated wick.

This arrangement enables a person to remove byrubbingthesteelpin I2 alongthesuri'aceoi' Il, which creates a spark suiiieient to This makes it unnecessary to lighter usually employed and rotate the small wheel for creating the spark which ignites thelighteriromthecasingandrubbingthepin, longitudinally of the ban 2. In a device oi' the character described. the combination of a casing having a chamber therein openatsside ofthecasing,spyrophonislighter 5 removably inserted into the chamber through the open side thereof land removable from the chamber. said lighter having-a body portion adapted to contain a hydrocarbon fluid, said body portion having a sleeve threaded in an end thereof with a. wick extending through the sleeve and having one end inserted into the iluid and the other end of lthe wick being arranged at the outer end oi thesleeve.andapiniittedintheendoithebody portion at one side of the sleeve, and a bar oi spsrk-giving material secured to the casing on the outside thereof and adapted to ignite thewick when the pin is rubbed lengthwise of said bar.

3. In a lighter structure oi the character described, a casing having afchamber therein open at one end to the outside oi the casing, one side of said casing having a thumb-notch therein at the open end of the chamber, and a lighter removably inserted into the chamber throughthe open end' and having a thumb-groove in a side thereof facing the thumb-notch and` accessible therethrough for removal of the lighter from the casing. Y

` LEO A. DENIT. 

